Hugh Auchincloss Brown (December 23, 1878 - November 9, 1975) was an American electrical engineer and proponent of a hypothesis of planetary axial shift caused by the accumulation of polar ice, whereby the earth's tilt is suddenly and radically shifted by the enormous weight of the ice caps, causing calamitous flooding and the movement of global climate zones.

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↑Krebs, Albin (1975-11-11), "Hugh Brown, 96, Dies; Cited Ice Peril", New York Times: 32M, "Hugh Auchincloss Brown Sr., an electrical engineer who devoted more than 60 years of his life to the promulgation of his theory that a vast polar ice cap would tip the earth over in this century and wipe out civilization, died Sunday night..."